Bah! What to Believe?

[Celyn]

Huh- I begin to wonder if health predictions are about as good as economic ones, the latest change of heart being that certain typs of fish are a really bad idea to eat.

Eating certain types of fish can increase the risks of having a heart attack, a study suggests.
A team of international researchers has found a direct link between mercury and heart disease.

High levels of mercury are found in shark, swordfish, king mackerel and marlin. It is also found at lower levels in fresh or frozen tuna. ....................

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2518311.stm

Huh - Yet tuna and mackerel were very healthy till now!

So can I can consider this a great excuse to give up listening and live on choccy?

[jacobitedreamer]

Hm. The bigger and fatter the fish, the more mercury can be found in the fat... That's the lore of it.

Small mackerels (for my diet very important as the fat of this fish keeps down my atopic eczemia), herring, and what about trouts and salmon? Herrings in oatmeal and trout in pastry... Is good and healthy.

You know, chocolate may contain herbicides and artificial flavours which also may cause cancer, beef can make you mmmmmmmoooooooooooh er, mad, water from the tap may contain hormons (we recently had this scandal in Germany), corn flakes contain acrylamide... Stop eating and drinking and you will stay alive, hehehehehe!

I think the secret is to have a good diet containing a bit of everything: Fruit, vegetables, fish, meat, all of this COULD contain something to harm you, but even the air we breathe is contamined, so what we should do is not to stop eating certain things but to get up and try to do something for a better environment, for better food.

I talked to a doctor recently about beef and mad cow disease he said the whole campaign made pregnant women stop beef and meat, and it caused a lack of minerals in their blood and thus had a bad influence on the unborn babies, so now they encourage women to EAT beef during pregnancy, as the benevolent effects it DOES have are higher to rate than the risk it COULD have.

Good food has always made the soul happy. And a happy soul has always had a good influence on the immune system and health as such...

From the day we are born, we risk our life. Every day things could happen to you and it could be over. So ENJOY life and EAT! But try to make sure the stuff you eat is of a certain QUALITY.

Just my opinion...

[HollyElise]

it's not the fish... it's the mercury in the fish. Remember:

Fish don't kill people. People kill people.

[HollyElise]

sorry... translation for non-Americans. There was a huge slogan here done by the National Rifle Association to try to discourage gun restrictions that goes...

"guns don't kill people. people kill people."